If you’re fortunate enough to have access to Google Music Beta, you can now share the wealth with your friends. But before you start sending out emails to all your friends, we’d like to warn you; Google’s only allotting two invitations per account. So, choose wisely. Many of us here at Android and Me have been using Google Music Beta since it was unveiled at I/O a few months back. The service works amazingly well, though it does take quite some time to get things up and running.

If you’re among those who don’t already have access to the service, you might want to hit up your friends on Twitter, Google+ or Facebook to see if anyone’s kind enough to throw an invitation your way. If you don’t have any friends, but have a few bucks to spare, you might find an invitation or two floating around on eBay or Craigslist. If you do get an invitation, be sure to let us know what you think of the service. And don’t forget to download the official Google Music Beta app for your phone or tablet.

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Todd

So… They didn’t really “throw the doors wide open”, then? I’d say throwing em wide open would mean it’s open for people to just sign up, right?

http://htcsource.com Nick Gray

I’m gonna blame Jess for the title, but I guess it’s my fault too for submitting an article with a boring title. They doors are open, but only if you know someone who deems you worthy of one of their two invitations.

chris

it does say “kinda” so its not really misleading.

Kevin

yeah.. a tad misleading with that title

Brian

So its really like “Google cracks door open”

Had me all excited.

BiGMERF

If anyone needs an invite let me know.. I got you :).. Only for my Android and me Family

Dur. I can’t read. I thought the original title said “unlimited” invites, but it said “opens up limited.” And then I forgot to go back and change it after I got to the bit about 2 per account. I haven’t had my coffee yet, okay? :P

http://htcsource.com Nick Gray

I’ll let it slide this time, but you better shape things up! I’ll be watching you!

Brian

How do you send out an invite? I can’t find anywhere in my Google Music to send an invite.

http://htcsource.com Nick Gray

I just logged into google Music Beta from the G2′s browser. The invitation notice is located on the orange bar across the top, right under the Music Beta logo.

Corey

I have Google Music but don’t see how to send an invite to a friend. Where is the invite button?

ParrishR

So how to you send a invite. I can;t find it in Google Music.

BiGMERF

upper left hand corner…

http://www.mlswanson.com SparkyXI

Hooooray for Google Music Beta. I don’t know what I’d do everyday without it.

Ben

Yeah from the title, I thought I was about to read about Google allowing unlimited music storage and not deleting them while also allowing multiple invites. You sucked me in again Androidandme! :-)

http://twitter.com/MetalMessiah78 MetalMessiah78

I’ve had Music Beta since the beginning (by changing the build.prop on one of my phone to that of the Motorola Xoom) and I don’t have the option to send out any invites. Anyone else who can’t send out invites?

Brian

I can’t.

Corey

Me either!

Ryan Kim

Me neither. Perhaps google didn’t want everyone to be able to invite?

Ryan Kim

wait, I can invite now

BiGMERF

May be they are staggering the invites? Trying to avoid a big BOOM! I know at like 5am i was able to send unlimited invites, sent like 10. But when I just looked it says I have 2 remaining

thered

Me either. I’ve had Google Music since almost the beginning, but I cannot invite anyone yet.

XEOD

No invite option for me. Thanks BigMERF you used them all ;-) JK

BiGMERF

LMAO!!! Sorry guys… If I would have know I would have came here and started randomly inviting people. But I took care of my Family members first.

Wow… I was thinking bout .. Especially when I remember google voice invites use to go for 5 – 10 bucks.. Lol. I believe in Karma, so I share.

http://htcsource.com Nick Gray

I remember selling invites to Joost way back in the day. Every account would get 10 invites. I invited myself and created multiple accounts. Probably sold over 100 invitations on eBay for around $5 each. It was crazy just trying to keep up with all the sales.

Jon

So… I’m not seeing the link to let me invite people… Are they rolling this out in stages?

domi1k

Still USA only?

Edgar Cervantes

Because Android and Me loves you, Alberto and I have decided to ditch our blood relatives and friends and give our invites away to our loyal readers. “I want to play a game,” lol.

Here is how this is going down. We are going to give away invites to the first two people that reply to this comment, and then randomly choose another two from the rest of the replies later on. Simply give us your Gmail address. If you do not want to write it down, make sure that the appropriate email address is linked to the comment (type it in the email section), and only we will be able to see it.

Comment away, guys! Also, it is not a requirement, but this post seems to be getting some good Reddit love! Can you guys support Nick and vote the article up on Reddit?

Edgar Cervantes

Thank you, BetterWithRoot! Also, The two first invites are gone to the two users below. Just to avoid confusion, though, could the rest make your comment a direct reply to my comment?

what is it with google? Why can’t they just do this as a wworldwide event?

John D

if you dont like it, you can get out

http://keridel.blogspot.com keridel

Get out of what? This is the WORLD wide web my friend. We are.one big global community.

drone3

just use “hide my ass” to sign up, wait 1 week for invite, then you’ll be in the US boat.

Nick

That may sound simple enough, but just imagine the huge server load required to make Google Music run smoothly. Handing out nearly 20 GB of online storage to the entire world is nearly an impossible feat…. even for Google.

http://keridel.blogspot.com keridel

With all due respect it isn’t a feat at all. I have that on drop box. And icrap manage it. And Im a reseller for web space and I sell unlimited packages so its easy to do.

I thought it was because of lincencing but it cant be because google didn’t bother to get licences

muadhnate

Google plus grew beyond their expectations. 20 million users signed up and growing. So take those 20 million users and give them all 20 gigs of storage on a cloud server. It’s alot. Streaming my music so far has encountered some glitches it would probably be worse if they overloaded themselves.

Beta is beta for a reason.

BiGMERF

Prmerf@gmail.com.. I forgot to give one to my godson..LOL. He is pissed at me :)

BiGMERF

damm i didnt space the email to avoid spam.. We need an edit feature guys… Please

Edgar Cervantes

Telemarketer voice: “Congratulations! You have won!” lol

Edgar Cervantes

Sent…

Martin

Completely closed for 95 % of the world is not “wide open”.

http://facebook.com/andrefromidlewood Andre From Idlewood

INVITE PLEASE??? I’ll be your best friend!!!

Edgar Cervantes

Got ya!

Edgar Cervantes

Actually, there is no email attached to your comment….

reboot

Not sure if the invite is still available. If not, at least I can continue to stay well informed through A & M.

Thanks for the hard work you guys put into this site.

Have a good weekend.

Edgar Cervantes

You got it! Sorry Andre, I tried to wait for you….

Edgar Cervantes

Alright, so we just found out that the whole thing was a confusion. I am not able to see the emails from people that are not commenting on my own articles. That is why I could not see his email. But since we are men of word, we will go ahead and give you one of the invites that were meant to be raffled.

I dont know if there are any left, but I love your guy’s website and I would really appreciate one!! mehta.ktwentyone@gmail.com (21 instead of twenty one)

drone3

I have had google music for a month and i love it except for one major thing, the music cuts and won’t playback, kind of like a skipping cd, it cant seem to playback without a hitch. i buy my music from amazon and the playback is all smooth through cloud drive, but i much prefer googles ui much prettier and more functional.

any ideas to what could be preventing smooth playback?

http://dylandersen.me/ Dylan Andersen

I have been having the same problem lately. Seems like a bandwidth issue on their end. Streaming to my devices has been fine. When using Chrome it becomes an issue.

drone3

yeh, that’s what i thought, there’s some kind of bandwidth issue on their end. Anyone else getting this problem?

i wrote to them, this was the reply -

“You may experience problems on the Music Beta website if one or more of your Chrome extensions is blocking Flash. To verify if this is the case, try temporarily disabling third party extensions.